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# Senior DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Hays plc
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Networking Basics, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Datadog, Grafana, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Gitlab, Amazon Relational Database Service, Kubernetes, Deployment Automation, Functional Programming, Cloudwatch, Terraform
- **Published:** August 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/senior-devops-engineer/hays-job107779571

## About the Role

* Strong hands-on experience with AWS including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC and CloudWatch
 * Proven experience with Kubernetes, ideally EKS
 * Strong Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience
 * Expertise building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab
 * Python and/or Bash scripting experience
 * Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus or Grafana
 * Strong understanding of cloud security and networking principles
 * Experience working within Agile delivery environments
 * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
 * Financial services experience is beneficial but not essential

## Description

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll play a key role in building and maintaining a modern AWS platform, supporting critical cloud infrastructure and driving DevOps best practice across the engineering function. You'll work closely with developers and platform teams to automate deployments, improve resilience, enhance observability and deliver secure, scalable cloud environments.This is a hands-on role focused on infrastructure, Kubernetes, automation and cloud engineering rather than software development.


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